Summary Insights: Unleash the Power of OpEx To Transform Data Centers and Kill CapEx
RFG Perspective: The two main drivers of data center transformation today are AI (primarily generative AI) and sustainability. Both shifts will have substantial effects on hardware acquisition strategy and data center design including requiring evolutionary operational metrics and added funding. GenAI capabilities will add huge costs across the categories of compute, storage, network, and power, necessitating IT executives understand and appropriately allocate limited resources to achieve business objectives.
Summary Insights: Unleash the Power of OpEx To Transform Data Centers
CDOs Applying AI to Data Management
Chief data officers (CDOs) see AI’s role expanding rapidly in hybrid clouds and multi-clouds that span the enterprise with end-to-end data management. They plan to put AI to work to ensure consistency in data management and governance, applying data analytics to produce actionable data insights that enhance business competitiveness and quick response to changing conditions.
CDOs Applying AI to Data Management
IBM Turns Up the Volume on Hybrid Cloud and AI Capabilities for IBM zSystems and LinuxONE
The rubber has finally met the (distributed) road.
For datacenters where the IBM zSystems are playing a leading role, IBM is evolving its mainframe platform to enhance hybrid cloud and AI/ML workloads. As it does that, IBM is giving customers the option of installing new IBM z16 systems and LinuxONE systems in single-frame enclosures made by IBM -- or in industry-standard rack-mounted enclosures that at IBM customers’ sites.
IBM Turns Up the Volume on Hybrid Cloud and AI Capabilities for IBM zSystems and LinuxONE
Infinidat Expands its Cybersecurity Offerings
Focusing on the rising wave of cyberattacks and ransomware threats to commercial and government sites, Infinidat is highlighting its security offers, and expanding its cyber-resilience software products.
We note here that Infinidat announced rapid recovery guarantees on the InfiniBox and InfiniBox SSA in August, 2022 (the InfiniBox SSA model is an all-flash array).
Infinidat Expands its Cybersecurity Offerings
IBM Storage Introduces its Diamondback Tape Library
In a world of dynamic computing and distributed data, it turns out that the tape marketplace – with a presence that is perhaps surprising to some industry observers – is not dead.
Worldwide data is growing rapidly – but not all of it needs to be viewed in real-time. Tape libraries give customers, data centers and cloud providers an option to store data off-line for later retrieval, as needed. Industry data shows that tape, as a storage category, is growing – especially for archiving infrequently accessed cold data, and as a less expensive alternative to higher-cost storage resources.
IBM Storage Introduces its Diamondback Tape Library
IBM Storage – New Cyber-Resiliency Functionality
IBM added more cyber-resilience capabilities for its already-extensive IBM Spectrum portfolio of data-protection software. The data-resilience features of products in the IBM Spectrum portfolio have been extended – and IBM announced expanded data-protection support for two widely-used enterprise workloads: SAP HANA and Salesforce.
IBM Storage – New Cyber-Resiliency Functionality
VMware EXPLORE – Staying the Course
VMware’s Explore conference (Aug. 29 – Sept. 1, 2022) presented the company’s portfolio, which is centered on multi-cloud deployments of applications and data. Clearly, VMware has been preparing for a multi-cloud wave of adoption that it believes will broaden its reach in the multi-cloud adoption wave: including private clouds, public clouds, and hybrid clouds.
VMware’s key message: No matter what stage of multi-cloud deployment is underway at a given customer site, simplification for multi-cloud deployment and multi-cloud management is key to enterprise customer adoption.
Intel’s European Plan to Expand Its Global Manufacturing Network
Intel Corp. is working hard to grow its R&D and manufacturing capacity in Europe. Its European plans are part of Intel’s strategy to address what it sees as a geographic imbalance in the world’s chipmaking capacity – with 80% of worldwide capacity based in Asia/Pacific, including China and Taiwan.
Intel's European Plan to Expand Its Global Manufacturing Network
IBM Power10 Systems
IBM’s announcement of new Power10 server systems was as much about efficient management of containers and databases as it was about the introduction of the new Power10 servers themselves. The announcement focused on how customers could flexibly deploy the servers, across a wide variety of workloads, running in hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments.
IBM Power10 Systems
HPE Discover Highlights 2022
HPE’s Discover conference unveiled key additions to the company’s HPE GreenLake as-a-service offering, which provides a consistent cloud environment across a customer’s enterprise.
Originally announced in 2017, HPE GreenLake is evolving as it becomes a fast-growing platform that generates nearly $900 million of annual recurring revenue (ARR) for HPE, which has more than $27 billion in annual revenues.